A man from New Jersey is alive thanks in part to an empty laundry detergent bottle that helped save his life after the sportfishing boat he was aboard capsized, killing his friend.

Frank Hennigan Jr. and Taylor Flannery set sail on the 50-foot boat named the Moonstruck, heading to Florida from Cape May Harbor. But they never made it.

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The pair docked at Canyon Club Marina along the Jersey Shore Friday night. About halfway through the trip to bring the boat south for its owner, the vessel flipped Saturday afternoon in North Carolina’s Oregon Inlet. Both Hennigan, the boat's captain, and Flannery, the boat’s first mate, were thrown overboard.

Officials said the boat was operating on three of its four engines at the

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